freight

1. 1.

   transport commercially as cargo

   Broadertransport

   Narrowerair-ship
2. 2.

   load with goods for transportation

   Broadercharge

Other forms of freight

plural

freights·

past tense

freighted·

present participle

freighting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about freight

What does freight mean?

freight means "goods carried by a large vehicle". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in freight?

freight has 1 syllable: freight. In IPA it is /ˈfɹeɪt/.

What is another word for freight?

Close synonyms include cargo, lading, load, loading, payload. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is freight a common word?

freight is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with freight?

1 word rhymes with freight. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.